The 2025 Major League Baseball season gets underway in Tokyo, Japan, as the Los Angeles
Dodgers host the Chicago Cubs on March 22. This is the first regular-season MLB game in Japan since 2019. The game at the Tokyo Dome illustrates MLB’s ongoing focus on broadening its international appeal and will be attractive to fans from Japan and around the world.
With Shohei Ohtani, Yu Darvish, and Seiya Suzuki among Japan’s shining stars generating hype in MLB, the Tokyo season opener is a fiesta celebrating the growing presence of Japanese baseball. Two-way star Ohtani has attracted a lot of worldwide attention, and his fame is going a long way in attracting more focus for the MLB in Japan.
This event marks the moment of reversal of the historic association of MLB and Japan and puts on show the global attraction of the sport. The first game not only provides an energized moment of suspense for fans but also an affirmation of Japanese player dedication towards spreading the game to the globe.
